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BREAKING: President Biden
@POTUS
was going to speak but turned away upon hearing my question on
#Covid
origin and whether he’ll hold
#China
accountable.
@NTDNews
@ChinaInFocusNTD
@capitolreport
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BREAKING: President
#Biden
reacts to House GOP’s new memo about his family dealings related to
#HunterBiden
, saying, “That’s not true,” after asking me back, “My family dealings?”
@RepJamesComer
’s memo, citing bank records, says Biden family members received $1M from Hunter
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A heated back-and-forth at the White House briefing today as
@simonateba
heckles
@KJP46
saying he hasn’t been called on in months.
@KJP46
wraps up the convo by saying, “We can either continue the briefing, or we can just end the briefing right here.” Fellow WH reporters called
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Now: Fmr. President Trump takes the stage at his rally in Wildwood, NJ. Trump’s campaign says there’s an estimated 80,000 people here today. Trump says “we’ll win the state of New Jersey” at the beginning of his speech.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. makes his 2024 presidential announcement event in Boston. He vows to “end a corrupt merger of state and corporate power.”
#RFKJr
#RFKJr2024
@NTDNews
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A pretty enthusiastic crowd tonight at the Trump town hall in Iowa. Some audience members cheering Trump as he walks in.
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Super Tuesday will be a “delegate avalanche” for
#Trump
, senior Trump advisor
@JasonMillerinDC
tells me as the former president sweeps to victory in Missouri, Michigan, and Idaho heading into Super Tuesday. “This is when we'll see President Trump build an advantage of hundreds
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Just in: House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries says he will support the debt ceiling bill “without hesitation, reservation, or trepidation,” adding that President Biden protected key priorities by finding “a third path.”
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BREAKING: I just asked President Trump if he thinks he’ll win by the same big margin here in N.H. “We’ll win by big margins. We just had a lot of polls coming in in the past hour, and you see what they are, they are very good,” he said.
He also told me “success” is how he will
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House Speaker
@SpeakerMcCarthy
to me today on
#China
's latest warning against him visiting
#Taiwan
: "I don’t think China can tell me where I can go at any time, at any place.”
@NTDNews
@ChinaInFocusNTD
@capitolreport
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President Biden to me on if he still trusts
#China
after Beijing lied about the
#balloon
: "It’s not a question of trusting China, it’s a question of deciding where we should work together and where we are at opposition."
Watch in full:
@NTDNews
@capitolreport
@ChinaInFocusNTD
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Crowd is gathering as President Biden is set to deliver a major speech at Vilnius University in Lithuania, in just a few hours .
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I tried asking
@POTUS
Biden whether the American public will find out the origin of Covid. He didn’t stop to respond.
@NTDNews
@ChinaInFocusNTD
@capitolreport
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@RepJamesComer
@POTUS
@GOPoversight
@PressSec
Here’s the complete exchange between
@POTUS
and me in which he denied
@RepJamesComer
’s memo on his family dealings:
BREAKING: President
#Biden
reacts to House GOP’s new memo about his family dealings related to
#HunterBiden
, saying, “That’s not true,” after asking me back, “My family dealings?”
@RepJamesComer
’s memo, citing bank records, says Biden family members received $1M from Hunter
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A protester just got escorted out of Biden’s campaign event here in Philadelphia. “I have rights to be here,” the person screamed as he was pulled away.
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“This medal reflects what teamwork, dedication and service can achieve,” said Col. Paris Davis, who received the Medal of Honor from
@POTUS
today for his heroism during the Vietnam War.
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After giving a campaign-like speech in Philadelphia, President Biden tells me he will announce his re-election bid “when I tell ya.”
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JUST IN: President Biden says he “hasn’t made a decision yet” on whether to sign the
#Covid
origin bill, which was passed in the House today and in the Senate last week.
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President Biden acknowledges
#Trump
’s 2024 re-election bid in his budget speech in Philadelphia:
"I had a big fight with the former president, maybe future president. Bless me father."
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I asked
@SenSchumer
if he’s concerned about House speaker candidate
@Jim_Jordan
’s opposition to more Ukraine aid, Schumer said: “We have large bipartisan majorities in aid for Ukraine, and we will work to get that done.”
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Trump has just arrived at Trump National Doral, where he’s staying overnight before his Tuesday arraignment in Miami. Supporters chant “Trump, Trump, Trump!” as the motorcade drove by.
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NSC’s John Kirby told me: “There is no intention, no plan, and frankly, no desire by the Israelis, for US combat troops to be involved in this conflict.”
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Just in: What’s happening in Gaza “is not a genocide,” Biden says as he rejects the ICC’s bid to arrest Netanyahu, saying there’s “no equivalence” between Israel and Hamas.
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President Biden on
#StudentLoan
loan plan at
#SCOTUS
: “I’m confident that we’re on the right side of the law. I’m not confident about the outcome of the decision.”
@NTDNews
@capitolreport
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Police clearing this entire area here where media people are stationed, saying a security check is ongoing.
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“Success is going to bring unity. Success,” Trump told me, before taking the podium at his Monday rally in Laconia, NH.
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I asked the White House today if Biden would bring up human rights issues with China’s Xi Jinping in their upcoming talks. Watch:
At the
@WhiteHouse
press briefing, National Security Council Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby answers questions from NTD’s
@IrisTaoTV
about the three unidentified objects shot down and addressing human rights issues in China.
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President Biden didn’t stop for shouted questions about the Wuhan Covid lab leak assessment by the Energy Dept as he returned to the White House this morning. Expect more questions on this at the WH press briefing slated for 2:30pm ET later today.
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President Biden begins his speech in Vilnius by applauding Lithuania’s history of breaking away from the Soviet Union: “The whole world saw that decades of oppression had done nothing to dim the flame of liberty in this country.”
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🎸🇺🇸 Enjoying some live music at the July 4th celebration at the White House. Happy Fourth of July! 🎉
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White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre just called President Biden “President Obama” by accident, before catching her own mistake and joking, “that would be news.”
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National security advisor Jake Sullivan begins the White House press conference in Vilnius, Lithuania by addressing Turkey’s latest agreement to let Sweden join NATO.
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Biden says he’ll talk to China's Xi Jinping but will “make no apologies for taking down the balloon.” He didn’t answer my question at the end about when this talk would happen. Watch:
@NTDNews
@ChinaInFocusNTD
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Just in: Kirby rejects China’s claim that it’s “impartial” in the war in Ukraine: “I don't think you can reasonably look at China as impartial in any way.” Kirby says China’s Xi flew all the way to Moscow but hasn’t bothered to stop once to talk to President Zelenskiy.
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Now listing subpoenaed bank records,
@RepJamesComer
demands a correction from the WH after President Biden told me last week it’s “not true” that his family received over $1 million from a Hunter Biden associate who received Chinese funds.
🚨🚨🚨
@POTUS
told reporters it's "not true" that his family received over $1 million in payments from a Chinese energy company.
𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐬 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬𝐭.
@GOPoversight
has the bank records.
@PressSec
needs to issue a correction to the President's statement.
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Massive turnout at Trump rally in South Carolina one day before the primary here.
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RFK Jr. condemns government censorship: “It amplifies the polarization. It amplifies the hatred.”
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Rudy Giuliani gets a standing ovation at Trump’s rally here in Manchester, NH. “He’s a popular guy,” Trump says.
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Senator
@MittRomney
tells me age is a big factor in why he’s not running for re-election. Watch his full answer here:
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Over two dozen Republican lawmakers have just come out to speak at a 10pm presser in support of the Biden-McCarthy debt ceiling agreement.
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Crowd is gathering as President Biden is set to deliver a major speech at Vilnius University in Lithuania, in just a few hours .
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The White House on the
#Nashville
Christian school shooting today in which 3 children were killed: “Once again, the President calls on Congress to do something before another child is senselessly killed in a preventable act of gun violence.” WH calls on Congress to “pass the
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“He is a dictator,” President Biden says when asked if he’ll continue calling Xi a dictator. Biden adds that China is “a communist country.”
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McCarthy says “nothing has changed” after his last talk with Biden months ago and that two sides maintain their stances.
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I asked the White House whether it believed China’s official COVID death toll. Watch:
@NTDNews
_
@WhiteHouse
National Security Advisor John Kirby told NTD's
@IrisTao6
that China “has not been fully transparent” with its COVID number.
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President Biden voices support for
#Hollywood
#WritersStrike
. “I sincerely hope that the writers strike in Hollywood gets resolved and writers are given a fair deal they deserve,” said
@POTUS
standing right next to Ke Huy Quan.
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🇺🇸🇰🇷The joint press conference with President Biden and S. Korean President Yoon is starting soon after a long delay. In the meantime, we’re enjoying some beautiful sunshine ☀️ here in the Rose Garden. Stay tuned for real-time updates.
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Now: Trump walks into his Super Tuesday watch party at Mar-a-Lago.
“I call it Super Tuesday for a reason,” he says at the beginning of his victory speech.
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Asked by
@mlakan
about if the WH believes the Wagner incident has affected Russia-China relation, Kirby says, "We don't want to see any country at all support Mr. Putin and make it easier for him to kill more Ukrainians. We want to see every country around the world sign up and
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JUST IN: White House confirms that Biden TODAY ordered to shoot down a high attitude object in US airspace that “posed a reasonable threat to the safety of civilian flight,” adding “we don’t know if it’s state owned.” 🧵
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President Biden was greeted by Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda as he stepped off AF1. The two leaders now talking to a group of children and families who are here to greet them.
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John Kirby on how President Biden’s decision-making abilities compare to those of other presidents he has served under: “His fine view and touch particularly on issues of foreign policy and national security is very, very distinct.”
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“We’ve been grateful for Dr. Fauci’s wisdom…during the Covid response,” the White House said when asked if it was prudent for Fauci to call lab leak theory a conspiracy theory.
@KJP46
adds that attacks on Fauci have been “counterproductive” and “not helpful.”
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Just in: White House says it’s assessing reports that Russia is responsible for the dam explosion in Ukraine, but it adds, “We cannot say conclusively what happened at this point.”
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In his victory speech, Trump congrats Vivek Ramaswamy for going from “zero” to 8%, saying Ramaswamy “did an excellent job.”
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It’s now starting to rain right ahead of Biden’s press conference on his meeting with CCP leader Xi at the Filoli Estate. Unclear if we’ll have to move indoors. 🌂🌧️
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A communist show trial," Trump says about Monday's trial in New York, adding that this country is "going communist" at his Saturday rally in Schnecksville, PA.
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Fire alarms just went off during RFK Jr.’s now 2-hour-long presidential announcement speech in Boston. The speech continued.
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White House principal deputy press secretary Olivia Dalton takes the podium for the press conference today.
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⏰ Tune in to NTD’s special live coverage of Trump’s arraignment at 10:30AM EST on Tuesday! 🎥 I’ll be reporting live from the White House, together with my colleagues on the ground in NYC.
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Kirby calls Russian pilot who forced down a U.S. drone an “idiot”: “I have no clue why they were gonna give a bravery award that to a pilot who was at worst, maliciously, putting himself and US property at great risk. And, at best, just an idiot.”
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President
#Biden
took no questions as he left the White House the morning after his
#StateOfTheUnionAddress
. He’s heading to Wisconsin to talk about the
#economy
.
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Latest on
@POTUS
’s fall: “There is no need for the doctor to see him related to the fall. He was doing fine,” the White House says, adding that the press corps saw him get off Marine One on the South Lawn yesterday.
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President Biden called
@SpeakerMcCarthy
,
@RepJeffries
,
@SenSchumer
, and
@LeaderMcConnell
yesterday to arrange a meeting on debt ceiling next week. “In his calls, he was clear. It is Congress's constitutional duty to prevent default; this is not an issue that we will negotiate
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White House on
#Sudan
, “It is not our standard procedure to evacuate American citizens…the State Department does its best to provide information to citizens who are abroad and and giving them the warning when necessary.”
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Just in: Biden says he discussed with Yoon “promoting peace and stability in the
#Taiwan
Straits, ensuring freedom of navigation in the South China Sea and beyond.”
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Key points of the WH’s response to the Covid Wuhan lab leak report:
- there hasn’t been a definitive conclusion
- the administration will brief lawmakers when it has something reportable
- the US has consistently called on China to be more transparent, including at the Biden-Xi
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NSC’s John Kirby tells
@mlakan
“there's been some discussions” about meetings with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi this week. Wang Yi is expected to visit Washington to prepare for a Biden-Xi meeting in San Francisco in November, per WSJ.
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On what Americans should expect in the coming days as
#Title42
ends, DHS Sec. Mayorkas says, “We could see very crowded, as we are now, we can see very crowded Border Patrol facilities. I cannot overstate the strain on our personnel and our facilities, but we know how to manage
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Just in: WH confirms the administration is deploying troops to the border: “This is a common practice… these personnel will be performing administrative tasks, like data entry and warehouse support…this will free up Border Patrol agents to perform their critical law enforcement
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“I don’t care,” President Biden says about whether he prefers to face off with Trump or Haley this November.
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“It takes a lot,”
@PressSec
says when asked by a guest about how she deals with “disrespectful press.” “It’s not about me, it’s about the President and the American people… I always think I’m representing him.”
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Kirby told me in response, “We’ve made our position very, very clear about the way the Uyghurs are being treated inside China. We're never bashful about raising our concerns over human rights, whether that's publicly or privately. We just issued a human rights report out of the
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“It basically freezes in place what Mr. Putin has been able to achieve on the ground inside of Ukraine. It still has occupied territory Ukraine, and that's just unacceptable,” says Kirby regarding China’s “peace plan” for Russia and Ukraine.
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NEW: The White House “couldn’t rule out” the possibility that any of the three new objects shown down was for surveillance, per NSC spokesperson John Kirby.
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NEW: Biden will speak at 2pm on the United States’ response to recent aerial objects, per the WH.
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Just in: DHS
@SecMayorkas
on the end of
#Title42
: “We expected to see large numbers of encounters initially. We are already seeing high numbers of encounters in certain sectors. This places an incredible strain on our personnel, our facilities and our communities with whom we
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“I have never once, not one single time, suggested the Justice Department what they should do or not do relative to bringing a charge or not bringing a charge,” Biden says when asked about DOJ integrity amid Trump probe. “I'm honest."
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White House
@PressSec
says she is “not going to get into” the health condition of
@LeaderMcConnell
or his ability to serve. President Biden called McConnell to check if he’s OK after Wednesday’s freezing incident.
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Just in: President Biden speaks on events in Russia: “We made it clear [to allies] that we were not involved. We had nothing to do with it. This was part of a struggle within the Russian system.”
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The U.S. is “not looking for a war with Iran,” John Kirby says. “We’re not looking to escalate here,” though the weekend attack “was escalatory.”
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In his 2pm speech, Biden will address topics including “our decisive response to China’s high altitude surveillance balloon,” per the WH.
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